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IN JAILS across Italy, more than 300 Mafia bosses are rattling their cell bars and refusing to eat in a protest against conditions. The hunger strike and rattling cacophony follows [...]

NOBODY, APPARENTLY, saw anything, even though the murderer struck in daylight and there were several people working near by. Antonio Romeo, an Italian-born Australian, was shot in the back while [...]

When it comes to the Mafia, the people of New York seem to want it both ways. They love it that the wiseguys are still in their midst, and glory [...]

ITALY: The son of Salvatore Riina, the jailed Mafia 'boss of bosses', was arrested yesterday in a police operation that put 21 people behind bars in Sicily. Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, [...]

JOSEPH BONANNO was a key figure in the transformation of the Mafia in New York, and then the wider United States, from a patchwork quilt of feuding Sicilian gangs into [...]

ITALIAN POLICE have arrested 32 suspected members of a criminal gang linked to the fugitive Bernardo Provenzano, considered the leading boss of the Sicilian Mafia. Among those held in pre-dawn [...]

A DECISION by members of the Swiss cantonal parliament of Zug to work through their coffee break yesterday so that they could get off early for an afternoon excursion proved [...]

ROBERT ILER, the 16-year-old actor who plays the son of the Mafia boss Tony Soprano, has been arrested on robbery and drug charges. The teenager, who stars in the television [...]

We may both be tea-sipping, island-dwelling monarchies, but there are one or two differences between Britain and Japan. Fish, for example. They're potty about seafood, while we are bizarrely indifferent [...]

A BLACK Russian model in the pay of the Mafia has stolen the seed of Germany's tennis star Boris Becker and is holding the resulting baby to ransom. That, essentially, [...]

A NAPLES Mafia leader who outwitted Italian police for two decades has finally been run to ground - in a secret chamber in the crime family's kitchen. Erminia Giuliano, 44, [...]

Sir: In 'The last Godfather' (9 August) Frances Kennedy traced the recent history of the Sicilian Mafia. In so doing she struck me as falling into the common trap of [...]

HAVING FAILED in its attempts to bribe and bomb the Italian state out of existence, the Sicilian Mafia, the Cosa Nostra, is trying a new approach - negotiation. Clan bosses [...]

AT 65, Pupetta Maresca had lived a pretty full life. She had buried and avenged one Mafia husband, deserted another, served time for a murder she proudly admits and seen [...]

In the beginning was the word, painted on bedsheets hanging from tenement laundry lines and billowing above the streets: 'Basta!' ('Enough!') Its appearance around Palermo in the summer of 1992 [...]

ON A July morning in 1984, Tommaso Buscetta, half hidden by moonlike dark glasses and clutching a blanket, was helped off the Alitalia jet which had just landed at Rome's [...]

It's been a rough ride for Peter Robb's new life of Caravaggio, M (Bloomsbury, pounds 25). M has had its supporters. Apart from Tony Parsons on Late Review, however, they [...]

Organised crime is now a multi-billion dollar global business run by sophisticated gangs operating across every continent. But regardless of whether it's Triad money laundering, Colombian drug smuggling or Mafia [...]

For a man who has become known as Mr Italy, Giulio Andreotti is remarkably unlike the stereotype of the Italian politician. When weary commentators seek a fellow countryman with whom [...]

ONCE AGAIN Giulio Andreotti has wriggled his way out of trouble. Italy's most prominent postwar statesmen, seven times premier and a senator- for-life, who has survived just about every tawdry, [...]

THE 'TRENCHCOAT Mafia' of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold may have used the Internet to predict and boast about when the massacre would take place. On one website, a person [...]

SICILIAN POLICE arrested one of Italy's few female Mafia bosses yesterday as she was having breakfast in her home town near Catania. Surprised in a friend's apartment, Concetta Scalisi, 45, [...]

It would seem that mobsters just ain't what they used to be. John 'Jackie Nose' D'Amico, Dominic 'Fat Dom' Borghese and Willie Marshall, the 'two-bit leg-breaker', will not be appearing [...]

THE 'WISE MEN' who last week exposed widespread fraud and nepotism throughout the EU are to launch a second inquiry into allegations of corruption in the award of multi-billion-pound building [...]

IT IS a statistic many Italians will find hard to digest but one in every five of their restaurants is controlled by organised crime, according to Italy's main business association, [...]

ITALIAN POLICE have arrested 17 suspected members of a mafia clan that it believes was behind a mass gangland killing in Sicily. Five men were shot dead in less than [...]

KEY FIGURES linked to the Italian Mafia are currently in London buying up works of art to launder money, according to an on-going police investigation. The head of the Italian [...]

Last week Marisa Merico, 27, daughter of an Italian Mafia boss and an English mother, was released from prison in Italy after serving 16 months of a six-year sentence for [...]

THE BODY of Robert Calvi, the man known as God's Banker, will be exhumed in September in an attempt to establish whether he stuffed his own pockets with bricks before [...]

MADRID (Reuters) - A judge ordered the extradition to Italy of Pasquale Cuntrera, the Sicilian Mafia boss captured in Spain. Mr Cuntrera faces a 21-year jail sentence after his conviction [...]

THE Mafia drug king Pasquale Cuntrera was arrested in central Malaga yesterday, just five days after eluding surveillance and fleeing from Italy. Italian and Spanish police involved in the joint [...]

PASQUALE CUNTRERA, the link-man between the Sicilian Mafia and the drug cartels of Latin America, eluded police surveillance yesterday only 48 hours before Italy's supreme court was due to confirm [...]

IN 1991, an agricultural labourer, Vito Vitale, met with an accident on a Sicilian farm and was awarded a disability allowance by the state pension fund. On 14 April, seven [...]

VITO VITALE, described by an investigator as 'the most dangerous mafioso still at large', was arrested yesterday when police ambushed him outside Palermo. The arrest of Vitale, believed to top [...]

MINISTERS from the world's richest nations will today launch a crackdown on a 'phenomenal' increase in green crime. Smuggling banned chemicals, waste and wildlife - often by the Mafia - [...]

Danilo Dolci, educationalist, campaigner, writer and poet: born Sesana, Italy 28 June 1924; twice married (two children, five adopted children); died Partinico, Sicily 30 December 1997. If we know anything [...]

Despite the arrest of a succession of Mafia bosses, evidence suggests their criminal network has not been damaged. Andrew Gumbel in Rome reports on how the gangs are poisoning the [...]

Foreign women are being smuggled into Britain to work as prostitutes in growing numbers by criminal gangs, including the Russian Mafia and Chinese Triads, one of the country's most experienced [...]

The Sicilian Mafia used an incinerator to cremate dozens of victims, an informer has told police. Francesco Onorato accused Salvatore Graziano of maintaining the incinerator in his garden in [...]

Italy plans to send soldiers to the port city of Naples this month to help police battle mob violence. Giorgio Napolitano, the Interior Minister, said the troops would take over [...]

The most wanted man in the Sicilian Mafia, the young Palermo boss Pietro Aglieri, was tracked down and arrested yesterday morning in a textbook police operation that breathed new life [...]

In a famous comedy sketch by the Italian film director Dino Risi, a mafioso is gunned down by a passing car on the church steps of his hill- top village [...]

Niscemi - The Papillon fur and jewellery shop is one of the few half-decent buildings standing in the miserable southern Sicilian town of Niscemi. Tucked away down a rutted, nameless [...]

The deputy mayor of Venice, Gianfranco Bettin, hopped across the lagoon one evening last month to have dinner with his parents in the industrial suburb of Marghera. The meal finished [...]

Mario Puzo's new book takes up from where The Godfather left off. So instead of just putting a horse's head on a movie mogul's pillow, we now have the entire [...]

Getting arrested was not the worst news for a man accused of bumping a 94-year-old woman and snatching her wallet. 'You just robbed the mother of the biggest Mob chieftain [...]

Rome - It is confession time in Italy. The latest mafioso to turn state's evidence, Calogero Ganci, has owned up to more than 100 violent crimes and shed valuable new [...]

IT WAS 6 June, in the high-security courtroom in Caltanissetta, in central Sicily. A motley collection of mafiosi on trial for the murder of Judge Giovanni Falcone were being led [...]

Giovanni Falcone may have died in a Mafia ambush four years ago, but his spirit has not deserted Italy's forces of law and order. When the anti-Mafia judge's murderer, Giovanni [...]

Anti-Mafia prosecutors struggling to push ahead with the sluggish trial of Italy's former prime minister, Giulio Andreotti, were given a strong boost to their morale this weekend after they obtained [...]